Top Links
- Microsoft’s Mico is a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era (Sarah Perez)
- Meet Copilot Mode in Edge: Your AI browser (Sean Lyndersay)
- The road to better completions: Building a faster, smarter GitHub Copilot with a new custom model (Shengyu Fu)
- Code Generation and the Shifting Value of Software (Tim O’Brien)
- Build an Employee Onboard Tracker UI Using .NET MAUI DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
- Announcing Sponsorship on NuGet.org (Sean)
- AI Toolkit for VS Code October Update (Junjie Li)
Web Development
- Azure Managed Redis at Ignite 2025: pre-day, session, and booth (Matthew_Burrows)
- Astro 5.15 (Matthew Phillips)
- FHIR is transforming interoperability in healthcare – but what is it? (Michelle Beck)
- CSS overrides without important using layers in Astro components (CodeTV Team)
- Blazor gRPC Streaming Explained: Build Scalable Real-Time Apps (Chameera Dulanga)
- Microsoft Entra ID to Add Granular Passkey Profiles for Enhanced Authentication Control (Rabia Noureen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Hands On with New Visual Studio Copilot ‘Planning’ Feature in Visual Studio (Preview) (David Ramel)
- .NET 10 Final Release Candidate Focuses On MAUI (Kay Ewbank)
- Stop Parsing the Same String Twice: CompositeFormat in .NET (Martin Stühmer)
- The Evolution of .NET Dependency Resolution (Ricardo Peres)
- MCP Support in Visual Studio Reaches General Availability (Edin Kapić)
AI
- Optimizing Your Content for Inclusion in AI Search Answers (Krishna Madhavan)
- Red Hat introduces Developer Lightspeed, an AI-driven assistant to streamline workflows (Wayne Williams)
- Sora update to bring AI videos of your pets, new social features, and soon, an Android version (Sarah Perez)
- Query Fan-Out, Latent Intent, and Source Aggregation – Rethinking the Query in a Generative Search Era (The AI Search Manual)
- Redefining data engineering in the age of AI (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- Implementing MCP Remote Servers with Azure Function App and GitHub Copilot Integration (muafzal)
- The Rise of JavaScript in Machine Learning (Loraine Lawson)
- Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
- Make the best decisions during open enrollment with Microsoft Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
- Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy and Copilot is getting more personality with a ‘real talk’ mode and group chats (Tom Warren)
- How To Deploy a Local AI via Docker (Jack Wallen)
- AI in Cloud Security: Vulnerabilities, Benefits, and Examples (Ben Nettleton)
- Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv (Joseph Spisak, Davide Testuggine, Zach Wentz, Pierre Andrews, Sanyam Bhutani, Hamid Shojanazeri, Pankit Thapar, Emre Guven, Lewis Tunstall & Vaibhav Srivastav)
- Considerations for Safe Agentic Browsing (Andrew Ritz)
- Transform Your AI Applications with Local LLM Deployment (Lee Stott)
- Vision Language Action (VLA) Models Powering Robotics of Tomorrow (Exxact Team)
Python
- Course: Agentic AI for Python Devs (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- DZone Trend Report: Intelligent Observability – Building a Foundation for Reliability at Scale (Stelios Manioudakis, Pratik Prakash, Marija Naumovska & G. Ryan Spain)
Mobile and Game Development
- Microsoft’s lofty goals for Xbox profit are behind the price hikes and studio shutdowns (Jess Weatherbed)
- Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite (BeauHD)
- Getting started with Unity and Android XR and Optimizing Performance for Android XR with Unity (Luke Hopkins)
Screencasts and Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk SPECIAL EDITION! Lenovo GIAC 2025 (with Matt Eastwood and Crawford Del Prete) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- What’s inside Pennsylvania’s data centers? “We have four employees” (Frank La Vigne)
- Random.Code() – Minimizing Expectation Naming Structure in Rocks, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Introducing Build Mode: TechCrunch’s new podcast for founders (Isabelle Johannessen & Maggie Nye)
- The Modern .NET Show – Data, AI, and the Human Touch: Michael Washington on Building Trustworthy Applications (Jamie Taylor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #543 – Arts and Crafts (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #187 – AgentCore Identity (Abrom Douglas)
- InfoQ Podcast: From Technical Excellence to Leadership: Understanding Yourself First (Frankie Berkoben)
- ai unprompted Episode #003 – The Current State of AI (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling (Brad Smith)
- Dev Leader Podcast – From Frying Chicken to This Dot Labs – Career Stories With Danny Thompson and Rob Ocel (Nick Cosentino)
- Why Sticky Notes Are Your Visualization Superpower in Retrospectives | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alex Sloley)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Confidence in a Fold | Made by Google Podcast S8E7 (Rachid Finge)
Community
- Welcome to… The Interim Computer Museum Online (ICM Team)
- VS Code Dev Days: How Global MVPs and Communities Brought AI-Powered Coding to Life (Soyoung Lee)
- Microsoft celebrates 11 years of the Windows Insider Program with new wallpapers (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- The 17th Anniversary of Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
- Announcing the 2025 Google PhD Fellows (Leslie Yeh)
Database
- T-SQL in One Hour (Hadi Fadlallah)
- XML Data Extraction from SQL Server 2025 (Hristo Hristov)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Multi-Statement Functions (Erik Darling)
PowerShell and Terminal
- What’s New in PowerShell 7.5.4 and What’s New in PowerShell 7.6 Preview 5 (Microsoft Learn)
Tools
- The ChatGPT Atlas browser still feels like Googling with extra steps (Emma Roth)
- PowerToys Light Switch utility (Microsoft Learn) – New update allows the tool to be enabled but “Off”, so you can toggle between light/dark modes with the shortcut key but not use the automatic switching feature.
General
- Dinosaurs Were Thriving Until Asteroid Struck, Research Suggests and Trump Eyes Government Control of Quantum Computing Firms (BeauHD)
- Microsoft prepares major Windows 11 feature drop with new Start menu, Taskbar updates, and more | New features expected to roll out next month (Zac Bowden)
- Big tech is paying for Trump’s White House ballroom (Amanda Silberling)
- Ford isn’t going to make more F-150 Lightnings for a while (Kirsten Korosec)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27975 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
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